{"slug": "cloudflare-changes-ai-crawler-access-rules", "title": "Cloudflare changes AI crawler access rules", "summary": "Cloudflare introduced new controls allowing website owners to manage AI traffic across three categories: Search, Agent, and Training, available to all customers including Free plan users. The feature aims to give content owners more control over AI crawler access and compensation for their original content.", "body_md": "Cloudflare introduced new controls that let website owners manage AI traffic across three categories: Search, Agent, and Training. The feature is available to all Cloudflare customers, including those on the Free plan, and gives website owners more control over how different types of AI crawlers access their content. “Content owners still want to be able to protect their content, and they should be compensated for the original content that they work hard to create, curate, … [More ](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/02/cloudflare-ai-crawler-controls/)\n\nThe post [Cloudflare changes AI crawler access rules](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/02/cloudflare-ai-crawler-controls/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cloudflare-changes-ai-crawler-access-rules", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/02/cloudflare-ai-crawler-controls/", "published_at": "2026-07-02 12:21:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-04 16:04:48.253580+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Cloudflare"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cloudflare-changes-ai-crawler-access-rules", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cloudflare-changes-ai-crawler-access-rules.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cloudflare-changes-ai-crawler-access-rules.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cloudflare-changes-ai-crawler-access-rules.jsonld"}}